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TIL people drown in the dead sea because of how difficult it is to roll over while floating face-down.

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wL8pY TIL about the Look-and-say sequence, an incremental pattern generated from counting the number of consecutive digits in groups of the same digit.
Med7b TIL George Orwell was born in India and his real name was Eric Arthur Blair.
PYO1L TIL Hayao Miyazaki withdrew from retirement for the 7th time and announced he was making a film so that his grandson knows that ‘Grandpa is moving onto the next world soon but he is leaving this film behind because he loves you.’
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lo18r TIL Afghanistan didn't have a national anthem from 1996 to 2001 since the Taliban considered music to be haram and banned it.